Paul Sellew
Paul Sellew has founded, managed and grown successful companies in the food & agriculture, lawn & garden, renewable energy and organics recycling industries. He is the Founder and CEO of Little Leaf Farms a leading grower of baby greens that are packaged and sold into leading grocers and fine dining establishments in the Northeast.
Prior to this, he founded and was CEO of Harvest Power leading its growth from start up to over $150 million of sales in its first five years. He also founded and was CEO of Backyard Farms a year-round greenhouse producer of tomatoes on the east coast and oversaw the development of its 42-acre state of the art greenhouse.
Paul has also been an executive with Synagro, Inc. and was the Founder and CEO of Earthgro, Inc., which grew to be the second largest producer of compost-based lawn and garden products in North America prior to selling to the Scotts Company in 1998. After developing and patenting an in-vessel composting process he founded International Process Systems, Inc. a composting technology provider.
Paul is a 1980 graduate of Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS). He has served on Cornell’s University Council, CALS Dean’s Advisory Council, the US Composting Council and currently serves on the Board of Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.